Anna Maria Pittman Lee journeyed from Boston around the Horn to Oregon in 1835 to become the wife of the missionary Jason Lee, who she hardly knew. The lot of a missionary wife was physically hard, and contributed to the death of both of his first two wives. This volume is from her letters, as well as letters and information from the original journals of the Methodist Mission Board that related to her. What is interesting and useful about this volume is that it gives a first hand account of missionary life from a woman's perspective, which, at the time was quite still novel.
by Theressa Gay
Metropolitan Press, Publishers 1936
Location
920L43 1936
Source Reference
Accession Number
1974-21-2